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PSP 2.0 Update Finally Released 243

Posted by CmdrTaco from the for-real-this-time dept.
Joshua Keller writes "The v2.0 firmware update for the Sony PSP is finally out, ending the saga of one of the most-talked about firmware revisions I can remember. The update features a web browser for the PSP and support for AAC files, amongst other improvements."
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PSP 2.0 Update Finally Released

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  • In case site gets hammered... (Score:5, Informative)

    by fizz ( 88042 ) * on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:00AM (#13388745) Homepage
    The North American version of the PSP 2.0 firmware update is now available via the wireless Network Update feature on your PSP. As expected, the 16MB update is nearly identical to the Japanese version released last month.

    The version 2.0 software brings a mobile web browser, new audio and video format support, photo sharing, custom wallpapers and more. Check out the complete release notes after the jump.

    The download and install the update, use your PSP's Network Update feature (Settings > Network Update). Read our PSP Firmware Update Guide if you need further help.

    Update: The PSP 2.0 update is now available for direct download.

    From the official 2.0 update release notes:

    Network
    + An internet browser has been added

    Video
    + 4:3 screen mode has been added (for video saved on Memory Stick Duo media).
    + Go To feature has been added (for UMD Video and UMD Music).
    + A-B Repeat feature has been added (for UMD Video, UMD Music and video saved on Memory Stick Duo media).
    + Audio options have been added (for video saved on Memory Stick Duo media).
    + MP4 (AVC) has been added as a playable file format (for video saved on Memory Stick Duo media).

    Music
    + The combination of SonicStage version 3.2 (or later) and PSP system software 2.0 (or later) has made it possible for music files in ATRAC3 plus format to be transferred to a Memory Stock PRO Duo.
    + MP4 (the audio codec for MP4 format audio files is MPEG-4 AAC) and WAV (Linear PCM) have been added as playable file formats (for music saved on Memory Stick Duo media).

    Photo
    + Wallpaper feature has been added.
    + Image transfer feature has been added.
    + TIFF, GIF, PNG and BMP have been added as viewable file formats.

    Settings
    + Korean has been added as a system language in [System Settings].
    + [Character Set] has been added in [System Settings].
    + [Theme Settings] has been added.
    + [Internet Browser Start Control] has been added as a security mode in [Security Settings].
    + WPA-PSK (TKIP) has been added as a security mode in [Network Settings].
    + Web address shortcut feature has been added as an input mode for the on-screen keyboard.

    (Mirror) Download from here [ibomb.net] (Mirror)

  • Don't install it! (Score:4, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:00AM (#13388749)
    Don't use firmware 2.0. It disables all ability for homebrew games, emulators, etc.
    • A chum of mine who gets his kicks from disassembling the code refuses to upgrade until it's been hacked to allow that sort of stuff. But then, he's an uber-geek, most punters won't be affected by the loss of these abilities and will instead be impressed by the additional functions available

    • Re:Don't install it! (Score:5, Informative)

      by CerebusUS ( 21051 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:19AM (#13388905)
      This assumes, of course, that you managed to buy a 1.50 PSP and then didn't bother to upgrade it to 1.51 or 1.52.

      If you have anything other than a 1.00 (Japanese only) or 1.50 PSP, you already can't run homebrew games and apps.
      • You know what was worse for me? Back when no non-Sony-approved games worked with 1.50, I figured I was hosed, so upgraded to 1.51. So naturally, I've already upgraded to 2.0.

        Then, as now, I figure the game of cat and mouse will still march on, and I'll be playing games from the memory stick soon enough. It's just a matter of time.

    • Re:Don't install it! (Score:3, Informative)

      by NelsonM ( 906317 )
      Another word of warning: It won't be easy to avoid this, because Sony is going to put the 2.0 firmware update in some of the newer games. As soon as you load the game, it'll auto-install the update and all your homebrew stuff will be disabled.
      • Exactly, I expect I'm going to have to make the choice between playing GTA:LCS or Mario, Zelda, Street Fighter 2, Chrono Trigger etc. It's going to be a tough one to decide...

      • Re:Don't install it! (Score:3, Informative)

        by rpdillon ( 715137 ) *
        Not really. When you insert the game, it merely says you can't play until you upgrade, and the upgrade is located on the UMD. You still have to manually run the update program. This is good, because you can't get "stealth" upgraded...you have to actually tell the PSP to upgrade. If you have doubts, see "Coded Arms" for an example of how the system has been working (so far). Of course, this could change in future releases.

    • Re:Don't install it! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by radish ( 98371 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @10:01AM (#13389259) Homepage
      Unless, of course, you have no interest in such homebrew stuff. Which would include me. I do however like using the web browser from the couch. Whatever floats your boat :)
      • which is another way of saying you don't want to own the hardware you paid good money for.

        you do realize the cpu, graphics and sound processors are OWNED by you... but the manufacturer, which has long since stopped owning that particular unit, has deemed in its infinite wisdom that you shouldn't have the right to run code on processors that you paid for.

        i'm just glad there are people who are willing to support their business model. otherwise we'd live in a slightly better society. phew.

        thanks guys, we could
        • Or maybe he does realize it and its just that he WANTS to use the processor, memory, LCD, etc... for web browsing and other features that come in 2.0 and does not care to use it for homebrew.

          Just because one can, doesn't mean one has to.

  • Start the timers... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ChrisF79 ( 829953 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:02AM (#13388766) Homepage
    I can't wait to see how soon someone "cracks" this firmware so it runs emulators and what not. I don't have a PSP, and not much interest in getting one. However, I do think it is pretty interesting to watch these folks go to work and produce these hacks or what-not. I'm always amazed at how fast some of these protections that companies work so hard to implement are dismissed.

    • Re:Start the timers... (Score:4, Informative)

      by imsabbel ( 611519 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:11AM (#13388840)
      They didnt crack the last release, so i doubt they crack this one.

      • Re:Start the timers... (Score:5, Informative)

        by Torgo's Pizza ( 547926 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @11:08AM (#13389896) Homepage Journal
        I'll take you up on that bet. Hackers have just decrypted the EBOOT.PBP today. Just a matter of time now it appears.

    • Re:Start the timers... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by ziggy the zagnut ( 639592 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:28AM (#13388974) Journal
      Yeah, it used be pretty cool to watch protection get broken,
      but the PSP is part of a new generation of DRM. We're
      seeing some rules get bent/broken. For example, having
      access to the hardware no longer means you 0wn the machine.
      Classic techniques like tracing through code from
      the beginning of its execution are obsolete.

      Another obstacle to opening the device is the (threat of the) law.
      When the PSP first came out, the website ps2dev.org quickly
      created space for discussion of opening it up. Once 1.5 opened
      up though, ps2dev quickly began to squash all discussion of
      opening attempts. They referred to "Grey Areas" in their
      censorship, claiming their goal of homebrew capability has
      been reached. Ps2dev admins prefer to keep it a small, elite community of
      1.5 users, as opposed to the more idealistic and democratic
      goal of enabling anyone who buys the hardware to be able to
      develop and run homebrew.

      The only alternative is the piracy underground, whose goals are
      different, but whose technology overlaps with the homebrewers.
      Because they're illegal, pirates don't have public information
      bases and their information is more valuable. This means
      any potential developers have to work their way into a
      social network, again, reserving homebrew capability for
      a dedicated elite.

      Currently there are several commerical companies interesting
      in opening the PSP to public development (mostly because
      they want to sell modchips). They've given dozens of PSPs
      to promising openers, but no dice so far. Any attempts
      on the hardware, similar to Xbox, for example, would require
      high-speed equipment. Observing the PCB of the PSP,
      for example, shows signficant tromboning (a technique of inserting extra space into circuit board traces to meet
      extremely tight timing requirements) on the PSPs combined
      flash/DRAM chip. Also preventitive is the use of a MIPS
      core: the pinout of the MIPS processor is unknown, as well
      as what IPL code it boots with. It may even included its own
      encryption. Several varities of encryption, from crackable to strong (AES128) encryption are used in nearly every part of the
      PSP firmware.

      The situation is so far from ideal, some promote the "Sony Leak Theory." The hypothesis is that Sony
      left open leaks on purpose in older firmware and encouraged
      the development of emulators in order to krush its kompetition,
      the Nintendo Revolution. Under this theory, Sony is confident
      that its DRM will prevent any future homebrew/piracy.

      Perhaps the PSP experience will serve as a weathervane for
      the future of DRM in consumer products.

      • Dude, if you don't like, DON'T FUCKING BUY A PSP!! There are plenty of open PDAs and whatnot. Geez, where in any nations constitution does it guarentee you the right to consumer electronics?

        Sony subsidises the PSP by selling game companies the license to develop for their system. If they left it wide open, then they could no longer sell the rights, and would thus be losing money on PSPs and would have to charge more for them. Last time I checked, Sony wasn't in the business of losing money just so you
        • You make some good responses to what I wrote, so let me to respond to those. First, there, of course, is no explicit right to consumer electronics freedom in any constitution anywhere. However, you must realize that we confer these rights on ourselves! When the U.S. Const. was first written, they had a debate about what they wanted to put in there. Consider this, here, the continuation of that debate. If enough of us can push in this direction, we can establish this right for ourselves. There are numer
      • I read about nintendo doing strange things like having synchronizing timer chips in both the console and the cartridge to prevent other non-approved nes games from hitting the market.

        Also the Xbox is notarious for its drm scheme by having a special pentiumIII processor that wont execute code unless its signed.

        Nintendo even switched to a strange disc format and kept using cartridges instead of cd's because they were so paranoid about piracy and user freedom.

        If you buy any so called *appliance* that has to do
        • I agree that the GameCube disc format was chosen to make piracy harder, but the N64 used cartridges because disc drives at that time were too slow. Nintendo thought gamers would prefer games without the long loading times that the orginal PlayStation had. (Obviously, they were wrong about that.)
      • calling it "homebrew" does a grave disservice to the ideal of actually have access to products customers own.

        you paid for the cpu inside the machine. you paid for the sound and graphics processors inside the plastic case (including the case). you paid for the tft lcd screen. you paid for the circuit board and the memory chips.

        the gall it must take for hardware manufacturers to deny use of aforementioned items... and the utter stupidity and uninform-edness of customers who think this is a good thing or someh

  • Major bugfix? (Score:5, Funny)

    by mnemonic_ ( 164550 ) <jamec@u m i ch.edu> on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:03AM (#13388776) Homepage Journal
    Did they fix that one really significant bug? You know, where all the games fucking suck? If not, I hope they fix it soon.
    • Amen Brotha

    • Re:Major bugfix? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:33AM (#13389017)
      Did they fix that one really significant bug? You know, where all the games fucking suck? If not, I hope they fix it soon.

      Did you try Wipeout Pure? It doesn't suck at all.

      Lumines doesn't suck at all.

      But the rest mostly suck. Hand it to Sony to release their new handheld platform at the beginning of the slow summer season. Fall looks promising though (as usual).

    • It's called the DS upgrade. (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Viewsonic ( 584922 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:48AM (#13389135)
      In all seriousness, it is absolutely amazing to see so many companies who want to get into the handheld market fail so miserably. It is like a voodoo curse on anyone other than Nintendo that even thinks of trying to break into the market. Sony came out with this very fast, slick handheld, and.. then.. nothing! They release it all at different times all over the world basically forcing people to buy the competition. It's like Sony gave up at the last minute or something out of nowhere. Huge shortage of decent games to buy, and even the ones that are worth buying are priced right out of the handhedl market! Have you even seen how much the PSP movies cost?? You can go buy the DVD which is higher quality, tons of extras for around $10-15 at places, or you can buy the PSP version that is lower res, virtually no extras, and costs $30!! Did some marketing goon just show up on launch day and say "Hey, lets set prices for this stuff so no one buys it!!" and they all went "Okay!!"??

      Seriously, where is all the sensible PSP marketing? I sometimes wonder if Nintendo plants people into other companies that have any sort of draw and have them derail their products on purpose. It is just UNREAL how bad everyone has failed trying to get into the handheld market.

      • Re:It's called the DS upgrade. (Score:5, Insightful)

        by radish ( 98371 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @10:07AM (#13389316) Homepage
        I'd agree with you except for the fact that UMD movies are selling amazingly well. No, I don't know why, and yes, they are a rip off, but hey.

        As for failing miserably in general, I really don't think that's the case. As a new entrant into the market they have snapped up a pretty decent share of the market in both Japan and the US. I know my local EB Games has (and sells) more PSP stuff than DS. As for the games being good, I posted here previously that if you go to metacritic and compare DS to PSP you get a considerably higher number (and percentage) of games for the PSP rated highly. Whilst the PSP lineup is certainly not stellar right now (quiet summer season), there are some great games out there - Wipeout, Ridge Racers, Lumines & Mercury are all ones I really like. Others rave about MGA, Twisted Metal, etc. Looking at the currently available DS games, well, only a few really appeal to me at all. Sure there are supposed to be some good ones coming down the line, but they're not here yet.
        • Maybe in today's world of 5-second attention spans, the LAST company to market wins.
        • Alright you asked for it!

          Awesome DS games available now (and not on any other systems):
          Meteos (better than Lumines!)
          Kirby's Canvas Curse
          Advance Wars Dual Strike
          Nintendogs
          Warioware touched
          Yoshi Touch & Go

          Awesome PSP games available now (and not on any other systems):
          Lumines
        • I'd agree with you except for the fact that UMD movies are selling amazingly well.

          They're not selling "amazingly well" - the top ones have sold around 100,000 copies worldwide. That's 1/10 what a popular game sells and about 1/100 what a popular DVD sells. Granted, it's with a fairly small installed base of systems, but I'd call that number "decent", not "amazing".

          Even "decent" is pretty surprising, though.

          As for failing miserably in general, I really don't think that's the case. As a new entrant into th
          • just to comment on the umd sales. 100k for a single umd is excellent considering how long it took dvd sales to reach that point. to compare the psp to current console sales and current dvd sales is difficult to do. compare the install base and the amount of sales, and you understand how major that is.

            as more and more AAA titles start appearing on the horizon, i think the psp will fare better, but until we start to see something other than the squareenix and capcom and konamis first attempts on a then-untest
        • It is of course different for different people, but I simply cannot take the loading times of Ridge Racer (haven't tried Wipeout so I don't know how the loading is). It is a slight annoyance on consoles, but to me it is a fatal flaw in a handheld. The most important use I get out of a handheld is the oops-15-minutes-of-random-free-time-playing. As such I need the game to be quick to get going or I wont bother playing.

          I hope that the later generation PSP games shape up on the technical side, but also in th

        • if you go to metacritic and compare DS to PSP you get a considerably higher number (and percentage) of games for the PSP rated highly.

          Let's look at each list, sorted by score: DS [metacritic.com] and PSP [metacritic.com]. So, what's a good score? 85? Then the DS has 4 good games and the PSP has 3.

          After subtracting two extra versions of Nintendogs from the DS's list:
          80? DS: 8, PSP: 7
          75? DS: 11, PSP: 11
          70? DS: 20, PSP: 17
          65? DS: 25, PSP: 21

          You weren't comparing the averages scores between systems were you? That penalizes a system

      • Nintendo did just drop their price on the DS by twenty bucks, yes? Along with the delay on the new Zelda title, they wanted some more palatable news, partly. But that can't mean sales are all that amazing, can it?

        Honestly, I think Nintendo is having trouble getting a range of the natural titles out for it, too. The stylus (for quick environment interactions), the extra screen (for stats and inventory), and the networking (for your party) would make this a killer handheld for RPGs -- it could be the platfo



      • I see alot of young college folks around school and work with PSP's. They do not seem to be a flop.

          How many have been sold and how many games are there?

    • With the DS price drop to $129, and the fact that it actually has a lot of *really* fun games, it looks like the PSP may just be a niche device. The super-1337 teenager may want a PSP for the wow factor, but the fact is the DS is more fun, cheaper, and selling better.

      Oh, and Nintendogs just came out in the US. Look out. Sold 700,000 copies in Japan already.
      • i don't get it. isn't it just a dual screen tamagachi (and where are those today)? i've got a real dog that i can play with and have to take care of. can't imagine a DS one being all that thrilling. oh look, i gotta rub his tummy on the screen to make him happy. lol

        remember, japan has a huge appetite for things cute and neat that flop BIG time here in the us.
        • You mean a Tamagotchi [wikipedia.org]. They're still around, but usually on little keychain toys. Mostly aimed at young girls, so you see Bratz and other vapid subjects instead of animals.

          And you obviously didn't see the latest Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com]. ;)

      • With the DS price drop to $129, and the fact that it actually has a lot of *really* fun games, it looks like the PSP may just be a niche device. The super-1337 teenager may want a PSP for the wow factor, but the fact is the DS is more fun, cheaper, and selling better.

        This sort of ignores how crap the DS was for a *long* time. Give the PSP the same amount of time and see which one has the better games. Thats exactly what I am waiting for, and if the price drops again all the better!

  • Copy Protection (Score:3, Interesting)

    by phase_9 ( 909592 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:04AM (#13388784) Homepage
    And once again nerfs current Homebrew / copy protection workarounds Forced firmware updates (which all new games will feature) are a very inteligent way of ensuring their copy protection remains in effect - are people considering such a system for the next Video Standard (HD-DVD / whatever is flavour of the week), everytime you buy / rent a movie it updates the firmware on your player? btw: my Import JAP PSP is still running 1.00 and is proud of the matter (RIN Rocks!)
    • Forced firmware updates on new games WOULD be an intelligent way to enforce copy protection, but first they'd have to come out with new games that aren't just ports of PS2 games, you know, that someone might actually buy.

  • Firmwares for game systems?? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by bugbeak ( 711163 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:06AM (#13388802)
    You know you've lost yourself in the console market when you need to get firmware updates for your console, even though you could automatically get it through games you buy. IMO, it just shows that the product will always be incomplete.

    And this isn't just for Sony and the PSP.

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:10AM (#13388832)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • but not we forget how the snakes from SM2 made us smile. Thank god humans don't bud, eh? What would console makers do for controllers the? But I digress....anyway, does anyone else shed the tears I described for the innocent days of game play?

      Innocent? surely you must be forgeting the exploit in SM2 which was a forefather of the GTA Adult themed exlpoit. You know the one were you can make it appear as though Luigi is humping anything he is standing on including turtles by pressing up/down on the contro
  • http://www.psp-hacks.com/ [psp-hacks.com] has all the details on what the v2.0 does.

  • Sony PSP 2.0 links (Score:2, Informative)

    by anandpur ( 303114 )
    Sony PSP 2.0 Firmware upgrade instructions http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP.aspx?id=software update [playstation.com]
    Sony PSP 2.0 Manuals
    http://www.playstation.com/manual/psp/ [playstation.com]
  • I tried the browser some this morning. It's got a nice display and it generally a much better browser than what you find on PDA's.

    The (current) games may suck on the PSP, but if nothing else this makes a great portable browser, good for surfing etc. while out instead of carrying around a laptop.

    Even if you don't play games on it, you can get a good "web tablet" for $250 that hits the sweet spot between price, size, convenience and features.

  • Ironically Day after Snes emulator at full speed (Score:5, Interesting)

    by marcybots ( 473417 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:31AM (#13389000)
    This awesome firware update ironically comes out in america the day after the supernintendo emulator for the PSP is able to run Super metroid and 90% of all super nintendo games at 60 frames per second (full speed) with zero frame skip since it can take advantage of speed hacks. Even final final fantasy III can run at almost full speed (dips slightly when entering combat to 55 frames a second). Talk about bad timing.
          Its much better super nintendo emulation than any five month old system has any right having, I really wish that sony would wise up start issuing its formal stamp of approval to emulators so and certain other homebrew apps so there would be no other legitimate excuse for non-pirates not to upgrade their psp firmware, I would upgrade it in a minute if sony was selling a official genesis emulator made by sega that ran at full speed and cost like ten dollars.

    • On emultaors and piracy (Score:5, Funny)

      by Digital_Quartz ( 75366 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:43AM (#13389094) Homepage
      I really wish that sony would wise up start issuing its formal stamp of approval to emulators so and certain other homebrew apps so there would be no other legitimate excuse for non-pirates not to upgrade their psp firmware

      Because no one using an emulator is a pirate. All those roms, they ripped themselves from the cartridges.
      • Is it only legal if you ripped the ROM yourself? What if you own the cartridge, but download the ROM?
        • "What if you own the cartridge, but download the ROM?"

          The actual copyright violation occurs when someone uploads (ie distributes) the ROM. However, you're better off ripping your own ROMs in the event the uploader gets sued and his logs are subpoenaed. Anyway, most old NES carts going for $2-$3 at the game stores nowadays.
           
      • roms from 10-15 years ago.

        copyright extends to infinity, hence the right of the public to take back what lawfully belongs to them. the laws that "lobbyists" bought and paid for are not for the benefit of the public and society, hence the laws are naturally offensive.
    • The problem with Sony officially supporting the emulator and homebrew application market is not a technical, but rather a legal and copyright problem. There would be the issue of licensing fees for content which Sony does not own, such as the Final Fantasy properties, when the cost and complexity of settling who gets paid for what and how have not been completely worked out. There is no way that Sony is going to willingly expose itself to copyright infringement litigation by supporting the homebrew emulator
  • w00t! Now I can sit on the couch and surf the web on my PSP with Sony's blessing. I must say that when I bought my PSP a few days ago, the 2.0 update was one of the main things I was waiting for. While I don't really care much for convergence devices, I was attracted by the prospect of doing things with the PSP that take advantage of its great video display other than games.
    • w00t! Now I can sit on the couch and surf the web on my PSP with Sony's blessing. I must say that when I bought my PSP a few days ago, the 2.0 update was one of the main things I was waiting for. While I don't really care much for convergence devices, I was attracted by the prospect of doing things with the PSP that take advantage of its great video display other than games.

      I think browsing the web on such a small screen is a cool thing in theory, but the novelty of "being able to do it" never quite is en

  • Actual progress made on hacking 2.0 by WAB ? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Posted over at DCEmu Forums http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t= 9716 [dcemu.co.uk] The Wab team have uncovered an exploit for the new firmware?? How To : !!! HOW use it !!! Put your two folders on your games folders and run it .your game boot and freeze your psps on white screen .after your psps shutdown it's because your second eboot.pbp like on kxploit "From pspsdev team for psp 1.5" is corrupted juste find teh 02000800 and replace the 08 by 01 for test in the header of your elf it's easy but it's pro

  • PSP 2.0 and Airport Extreme WPA (Score:5, Informative)

    by BMonger ( 68213 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:40AM (#13389067)
    If you have an Airport Extreme base station and cannot get your PSP connected via WPA you need to install the 5.5.1 firmware [apple.com] on your Airport Extreme (possible a "downgrade").

    Spent a good while troubleshooting then googling till I arrived at this.
    • And likewise, if you are using Airport Express, you need to downgrade from firmware 6.2 to the 6.1.1 firmware [apple.com].

      The reason for both of these upgrades was improved WPA2 support which apparently uses a different encryption (AEBS) than standard WPA Personal. The PSP apparently doesn't support the newer standard just the older one.
    • I strongly believe in application-level security (SSL, SSH, SCP, SFTP, PGP) over network-level security (WPA, WEP, etc. etc.), mainly from a "i have a million less headaches than you do and almost as much security" standpoint (but also because I'm a network gamer and like as little latency as possible). I lock down my router by only allowing devices on by MAC address filtering, and stick to secure application-level protocols wherever possible (gmail via https, secure chat, secure file transfer, secure shell
      • Umm you do realize that MAC filtering does absolutely NOTHING for wireless security right? In fact after A) an open wireless point and B) 64bit wep c) MAC filtering is the least secure solution avaiable. Seriously, I hope you come back and see my post and then do your own research on the subject. There are much better methods.
        • Spill the beans, so many people rubish basic security measures and then, like snake oil sellers, keep the secret recipe to themselves.
        • dude how old are you and did you actually read my post, especially the parts about "application-level encryption"? This means that your DATA IS SECURE, except not at the network layer, at the application layer. So anyone managing to even get on your network is only going to sniff garbage. Which I could care less about. You do realize that all the acronyms I mentioned are secure by default, yes?
  • Just read over at http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/ [dcemu.co.uk] that someone has posted news of a possible exploit of the new firmware, on the day sony release it in the USA.

  • So where's a screenshot of the browser? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by blakespot ( 213991 ) on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @09:52AM (#13389164) Homepage
    The browser has been kicking around for a few weeks, right? I've not seen one photo or screenshot of it. Is it worth flashing my first gen (in the US) PSP and losing the ability to boot "homebrew" games to use this browser? What sort of keyboard metaphor does it have? Does it support JS? SSL? Flash?

    Thanks.

    blakespot

  • Europe is still waiting for v1.0 (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dascandy ( 869781 ) <dascandy@gmail.com> on Wednesday August 24, 2005 @10:12AM (#13389356)
    If they'd just sell the stuff here... we might consider upgrading...
  • > one of the most-talked about firmware revisions I can remember

    Ah, but that's only because you are too young to remember all the hype surrounding the great 3.0.4-beta2 Japanese Abacus firmware revision of 1672.

  • Browser User Agent (Score:2, Interesting)

    by zensmile ( 78430 )
    Mozilla/4.0+(PSP+(PlayStation+Portable);+2.00)

    Enjoy.
  • Surely Paint Shop Pro [corel.com] is beyond v2 by now?

    More seriously, it is about time Sony found some original acronyms. We had enough trouble distinguishing PS2 (the Sony games console) from PS/2 [seds.org] (IBM's Personal System Two, a late 80's next-generation PC design, from which the well-known mouse and keyboard socket standards originated). Now the same bunch of elderly spods is going to have the same trouble with PSP, and this time there's no stroke/slash to assist.

    (I wish I still had my Model 80 IBM PS/2 [chello.at] complete with i
    • Agreed - the naming is confusing. For example, one Argos catalog referred to some of the mice it was selling as Playstation2 mice (when really they were PS/2!)

      Note to USians: Argos is the name of a chain of large UK retailers. They have a thick (1000-page or so) catalog, which is updated twice-yearly and lists all their products.
  • I don't understand why there is so much focus on trying to hack every new firmware release Sony has. Wouldn't it be easier to find a hack that would allow you to use earlier versions of the PSP firmware?

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